4WD drivers 'fat, homophobic'

[kweerwolf]

FORGET the ads that show fit, rugged, 30-something-year-olds navigating flood plains and climbing mountains in the snazzy 4WDs.

The reality is, drivers of the suburban monsters are often obese, aggressive, intolerant and aged in their 40s or 50s.

A new study has found that city owners of large four-wheel-drive vehicles are less community minded than other drivers, less charitable, more likely to be homophobic and have a low opinion of indigenous culture.

The Australia Institute study has also found they are more likely to use force to get their way.

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,16726259-5001028,00.html

[ET Awful]

1. Hehehe, that reminds me of the time a guy in a Ford Behemoth

cut me off and when I honked my horn, he screamed out the window "F you you f'in f*&&#t"

First I just shook my head in disgust that anyone would actually resort to that as an insult (I may be straight, but sorry to all you freeps out there, I just don't find being called a homosexual insulting), then (just to piss the guy off), I yelled out "Actually, I'm straight, but in your case I'd make an exception handsome." The guy about blew a gasket while I laughed my ass off and drove off down the road :evilgrin:

[samdogmom]

2. Good one!

I think this stereotype is appropriate. If you don't care about the environment, saving energy, and using less than your fair share of our natural resources, you'd be inclined to buy a big SUV. Usually, I just think the owners are trying to compensate for small attributes in other areas of their lives. It all fits the profile.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Do what I do.

Pull up next to them and give them the universal SIGN for small attributes.

It's makes them oh-so-cranky! I can't tell you how many interesting hand gestures I've had thrown my way!

:D
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[DrRang]

7. I've been doing the Loser "L" on the forehead but that's better. n/t

[sui generis]

9. does Mr. FSC know you do this?

or does he encourage you!!!!

:P

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Don't tell him!

He'll kill me.

When we drive up next to idiots with Dubya stickers, he grabs my hand and won't let me flip em the finger.

I do this when he's not in the car! :D
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[FuzzyDicePHL]

13. Exactly what I do!

Especially when they go racing past me WAY over the speed limit. My response to hand gestures from them: blow them a kiss.

[kweerwolf]

4. ROFLMAO!!!!!!

Way to go, ET Awful! :toast:

[ET Awful]

5. Hehehe, the look on the dude's face was priceless :)

Hell, I could see the veins in his forehead pounding from my car :)

[enid602]

6. truck

And don't forget . . . the bigger the tires the smaller the . . .

[kcass1954]

10. There's actually a medical term for this condition - LDS...

little dick syndrome.

[Maven]

14. Exactly.

Instead of calling them SUV's I call them PEV's--Penis Extension Vehicles.

[sui generis]

8. well empirically this certainly true in Texas

Every time I pass a hummer or an expedition or suburban or similar between Ft. Worth and Dallas there is a hard haired drop chinned no neck loose nostril nuclear lipped purple faced angry looking republican grimly driving down the road.

They have this trick they do:

You're in the left hand lane, traffic is moving along at a pleasant 80 mph just on the edge of unsafe driving distance between cars, and along comes Hummer Ass, zooms up on the car next to you and tries to muscle in with less than a car length. Turns purple in face, drops back and rides your bumper yelling and carryin' on like a fool because you didn't let him exercise his god given right to cut you off and show that oval W sticker as irrefutable proof of his stupidity.

Yup. Happens a lot. I even had one try to get in front of me going up the ramp in the parking garage at work, and then get out all purple faced angry and yelling at me for not "seeing" that he was there trying to get around me. I repeated his license plate number back to his face and asked if he wanted me to stop at the security desk on the way in.

They're just freaks. And shitty mean little people.

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Ha! Love you!

That was the MAIN thing I noticed when I moved to Dallas. The whole "no leaving a car length between cars" thing.

The first couple of times my mom came to visit me up here, she about freaked. I'd had a very relaxed driving style in Austin, but I had to adapt to tailgating up here. If you don't, someone squeezes in and leaves you even LESS room! I had to explain this to her numerous times. She finally figured it out herself when she came up to visit enough and drove in this mess herself.

"hard haired drop chinned no neck loose nostril nuclear lipped purple faced angry looking republican"

:rofl:

Can't wait to see ya'll in a couple weeks!
:hi:
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